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Bill Nye: Stop calling Sen Inhofe climate change 'skeptic'
2014-12-12 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: There are a lot of words one could use to describe Sen. James Inhofes position on climate change, but some scientists and science communicators are most concerned with two of them: skeptic and denier. In a statement released this week, several dozen people from the science world asked the media to stop calling Inhofe (R-Okla.) and others who do not believe in the scientific evidence supporting climate change skeptics. Instead, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry argued, it would be more...
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Barbra Streisand: God Help Us! Sen. Inhofe to Head Committee on Environment
2014-12-03 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a piece published yesterday at Mother Jones, writer David Corn exposes what he calls Inhofes Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory. Inhofe, of course, is Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, author of The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Our Future and soon to be chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Corn tells of an encounter with Inhofe at the 2009 U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen where Inhofe was a conspicuous presence, acting as a self-proclaimed...
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Sen. Whitehouse to Push Carbon Fee Bill
2014-11-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will unveil new legislation that will put a price on carbon emissions. Whitehouse, a staunch environmentalist, will announce details of the bill during a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday. The bill is expected to help slash carbon emissions by charging a fee for each ton emitted. It will also generate over a trillion dollars in revenue to go back to the public, Whitehouse said. Whitehouse has been preparing the bill for some time, first introducing...
Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton remembers Evergreen's Del Smith
2014-11-11 00:11:31| Air Courier - Topix.net
Del Smith, founder of Evergreen Aviation, wanted so badly to fly he made it half way through U.S. Air Force flight training in the 1950s before he was disqualified for being color blind, according to his lifelong friend and military roommate, former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, R.-Washington. Del Smith so badly wanted to fly airplanes he managed to keep his color blindness a secret from U.S. Air Force officials.
Sen. Hatch Calls High-Skilled Worker Shortage - A Crisis'
2014-10-25 21:39:57| Apparel - Topix.net
Sen. Orrin Hatch this week outlined the Republican tech agenda for the next Congress, and took a position that puts him at odds with some in his own party. Hatch, in a speech at the corporate offices of Overstock.com in Salt Lake City, called for raising the cap on H-1B visas.
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